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'''Lisp''' (originally named ''LISP'' in all-caps) is a [[computer]] [[programming language]] originally developed by John McCarthy and his associates at [[MIT]] in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<ref>It was first described in McCarthy, J (1960), ''Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine,'' Communications of the ACM, '''3''':184-195</ref>. Lisp is fundamentally based directly on concepts from mathematical logic, and was the first important language that was oriented toward logical operations of symbolic data, as opposed to computational operations on numeric data.

'''Lisp''' (originally named ''LISP'' in all-caps) is a [[computer]] [[programming language]] originally developed by John McCarthy and his associates at [[MIT]] in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<ref>It was first described in McCarthy, J (1960), ''Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and their Computation by Machine,'' Communications of the ACM, '''3''':184-195</ref> Lisp is fundamentally based directly on concepts from mathematical logic, and was the first important language that was oriented toward logical operations of symbolic data, as opposed to computational operations on numeric data.

Lisp was the first programming language to introduce the conditional "if-then-else" structure. The designers of ALGOL acknowledged borrowing this idea from LISP, and it has since become nearly universal in modern programming languages.

Lisp was the first programming language to introduce the conditional "if-then-else" structure. The designers of ALGOL acknowledged borrowing this idea from LISP, and it has since become nearly universal in modern programming languages.

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[[Category: Programming Languages]]

[[Category:Programming Languages]]